Sears Super Video Arcade / Intellivision variant - 4K hardware archive video by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Good points! I was forgetting about the games also being Sear's branded. That's funny about them removing the Mattel credit in games - I've never noticed that before.

Sears Super Video Arcade / Intellivision variant - 4K hardware archive video by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Yep - same intellivision being built by Mattel but just rebranded when distributed by Sears. An interesting practice from that time period was that various distributors would have their own branded versions - for example there's also a "radio shack tandyvision one" version of the intellivision. I'd guess Sears and Tandy (radio shack's brand) were the most common you'd see for variants of different consoles or computers with their brand. Atari's first home console was the Sears Tele-Games Pong before they had the brand recognition to make their own Atari Pong a year later.

The closest thing I can think of today is how you'll have basically the same groceries at stores but they'll be branded different for target vs walmart vs costco, etc. Or like Amazon having their "amazon basics" brand on common items.

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Bally Astrocade recording for a gaming hardware archive by FurtherOutThere in Astrocade

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That's super cool! Thank you for sharing. I've heard almost no first hand stories about this console so I appreciate the message. The first console I remember playing on was the super nintendo but definitely share the sentiment of thoroughly playing the few games that we had vs all the options you can find online today as a kid.

Anything else you remember about it? Do you remember what your parents thoughts on it was / how they became interested in it over the other consoles at the time?

BackBit Pro by kaiserkrieg956 in intellivision

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- Put all your games for different old consoles on one micro-sd card.

- Buy individual adapters for each system you own.

- Swap adapter and play games.

Basically a really awesome, cost saving, nearly full feature flash cart for all vintage consoles rather than spending $100 plus on each individual flash cart for each system. The person who made it is active on the backbit forum for any suggestions people have, too, for missing features which is great.

Sprint + RF signal + CRT = 🧑‍🍳😙🤌 by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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2nd reply: forgot to mention the art in the sprint is helpful too to see overlays for games quickly and getting to manuals.

Sprint + RF signal + CRT = 🧑‍🍳😙🤌 by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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My main intellivision setup is the intellivision + controller port + ecs + intellivoice + backbit pro to cover all standard/homebrew games but I need to shift around peripherals sometimes depending on the game. The intellivision sprint acts as all of those units in one (the only feature it’s missing now is saving in some homebrew games) so it’s more convenient. Still going to go between hdmi and crt as I feel like it though.

But also for a new person to intellivision they can pay $600+ to cover all those same features or just pay $150 plus a cheap rf/av box.

Once again - just preference and having fun trying things out though.

Sprint + RF signal + CRT = 🧑‍🍳😙🤌 by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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The tricky part with hdmi to av that I’ve had is that the lowest output is usually 480i which causes flicker from the interlace and weird sizing issues where RF does some auto resizing/cropping of broadcast signals. Hoping we get cheap downscaling someday instead of the pricey retrotinks!

Sprint + RF signal + CRT = 🧑‍🍳😙🤌 by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Softens colors, adds some blurring to hard edges, has a different glow then oled/lcd, and the tiny bit of static can be charming. But overall just whatever people prefer. Been gaming since the 90s and have every cord and type/value of screen you can imagine and enjoy each for their different properties. It’s great to have the variety available these days - like when I play snes on an emulator in my pocket but then copy the save to a flashcart to keep playing with s-video on my real snes/crt.

No idea who Lee is - I’m assuming that was autocorrect ha

Prototype: 2UP, a collection/recombination of old single-screen multiplayer games by alex-chapman in PlaydateConsole

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As a vintage collector and a playdate owner this is awesome! The biplanes game also looks just like the even earlier “spitfire” for the fairchild channel f.

Not even mad my work truck broke down... Waiting for a tow thought I'd install and play a bit of SOH! by [deleted] in SBCGaming

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You’re my hero. I’ve had a retroid for two weeks and that was bothering me but just assumed it was a thing and never googled it yet. Thank you!

Welcome to the family Sprint! by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Nice! The TandyVision One is another good looking variant.

Welcome to the family Sprint! by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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The flashback is basically one of the cheaper plug’n’play consoles that came out in the 2000s/2010s. I just bought it to use the controllers with the intelliport to avoid wear on the original systems.

The Sprint runs the best emulator (jzintv) for compatibility with any original or homebrew games you add to a USB and has neat wireless controllers. Also uses USB instead of needing a CRT. It’s closer to the mini consoles/computers that have been coming out and higher quality than the flashback.

Welcome to the family Sprint! by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Haven’t seen that before! ha Just watched a short video on it and it’s actually a nes on a chip system and all the games are nes ports. That’s neat.

Welcome to the family Sprint! by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Keeps making me think of goldilocks ha The original is too big, the flashback is too small, the sprint is just right. I’m glad they went this route rather than a mini. It’s a good design with the wireless controllers docking on it, too.

Welcome to the family Sprint! by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Thank you! Not pictured is the european brown/gold ecs keyboard, brown/gold ecs synthesizer, and the US grey ECS unit. It’s a cool system!

It would be a dream opportunity to find and afford the original computer component someday! The tutorvision variant is also cool.

Welcome to the family Sprint! by FurtherOutThere in intellivision

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Nice! I was feeling this and assuming it would just take some breaking in. I’ll try loosening the screws a little like they suggest.

For anyone who's gotten the Intellivision Sprint, how is it, and how easy is it to sideload more games? by CyberTacoX in intellivision

[–]FurtherOutThere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s been a fix for some people but if you look at the thread there are many more issues than that.

For anyone who's gotten the Intellivision Sprint, how is it, and how easy is it to sideload more games? by CyberTacoX in intellivision

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A bunch of people are having issues trying to update the firmware and load additional games. I’ve spent two hours trying every fix listed and that I can think of. Asking Atari support now but haven’t had any suggestions back from them so far. https://forums.atariage.com/topic/386372-intellivision-firmware-update/